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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Age: 85 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 29
Died: 1894
Died: October 7
Medical Writer
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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Cupid the little greatest enemy.
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The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.
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